CBS gets highest wild-card rating in 24 years (updated)

The Denver Broncos’ overtime victory Sunday over the Pittsburgh Steelers on CBS generated a 25.9 overnight Nielsen rating, marking the highest-rated NFL wild-card playoff game in 24 years.

The early game Sunday between the Atlanta Falcons and New York Giants drew an 18.9 rating on Fox.

The Steelers-Broncos number is was 6 percent higher than last year’s final wild-card game, matching the Packers and Eagles on Fox (24.4), and 38 percent higher than last year’s CBS wild-card telecast (Ravens-Chiefs, 18.8).

The Falcons-Giants rating showed a 1 percent increase over that Ravens-Chiefs game, which was last year’s early Sunday wild-card telecast.

As reported Sunday, NBC’s ratings were down from last year for both games.

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Perhaps I’m alone, but I was really annoyed with the WXXA Vios crawl at the bottom of the screen during the Giants-Falcons game. Each time it ran the HD element was lost and the picture diminished. Though it was unnecessary…